Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of idiosyncratic risk on firm decisions. Design/methodology/approach – By introducing managerial ownership as a key variable, the paper presents a parsimonious model to describe the consequences of idiosyncratic risk on firm...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of idiosyncratic risk on firm decisions. Design/methodology/approach -By introducing managerial ownership as a key variable, the paper presents a parsimonious model to describe the consequences of idiosyncratic risk on firm...

We manually collected a dataset comprising the overseas experiences of management teams of listed Chinese firms and investigated the effects of returnee talent on firm investment efficiency (InvEff). The results show that 1) returnees improve InvEff significantly, especially for firms that...